Pillow-sham and holder



(No Model.)

113. WILSON.

PILLOW SHAM AND HOLDER.

Patented May 27. 1884.]

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UNITED STATES, PATENT Orrin,

DAVID R. IVILSON, OF FENTON, MICHIGAN.

PILLOW-SH AM AND HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 299,309, dated May 27, 1884-.

Application filed April 26, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: strip of wood, G, secured to the head of the Be it known that I, DAVID B. XVILsoN, of bedstead. It will of course be understood that 55 Fenton, in the county of Genesee and State of this fly is to be so arranged that it will not in- Michigan, have invented new and useful Imterfere with the raising of the forms. Aratch- 5 provements in Combined Pillow-Forms and et-wheel, E, may be secured upon one end of Sham-Holders; and-I do hereby declare that the bar B, with which a dog, d, engages, and the following is a full, clear, and exact deby means of which the inclination of the pil- 6o scription thereof, reference being had to the low-forms may be adjusted, as desired, and accompanying drawings, which form a part the pillow forms and shams may be raised 1 of this specification. and secured against the head of the bed while This invention relates to certain new and the latter is being made. Moreover, by the useful improvements in the construction and use of the ratchet and dog the frame can be 65 operation of combined pillow-forms and shamadjusted at any desired height, so as to be laid holders; and the invention consists in the pe down over the pillow without actually touch- 5 culiar construction, arrangement, and combiing it, and it can be set at just such a height nations of the various parts, all as more fully as Will ll w f e 1 f t e S am P g hereinafter set forth. over the edge, and thus displaying the lace to 70 Figure l is a perspective view showing my the best advantage, and at the same time hiddevice as attached to the head of a bedstead, g the Space between the Sham and the ith th forms d Shams I d Fi 2 i clothing, which cannot be done in devices of a similarlview with the forms l t d, this character where the sham has but two ad- In the accompanying drawings, which form justments, as has heretofore been proposed. 75 a part of this specification, A represents the Thfle I Show and describe the employment head of a bedstead, to which is secured the of it fly above the forms, it is evident that rock-bar B, by means of it bl b k t a, such fly can be dispensed with without departthe ends of such barB being pivotally secured g from the 1 it Of y inventionin the brackets. By the employment of a device constructed 80 (3 represents h pillows, those shown in substantially as described I avoid the necesthe drawings consisting of frames b, provided sary use Of an extra Set of Pinewe the P with raised panels 0, said frames being rigidly pose of supporting the shams. secured to the rock-bar B. tVhile I show and What I claim as my invention isdescribe this form of construction, I do not 1. A pillow-sham holder consisting of the 5 desire to be restricted thereto, as there are ya pillow-form 0, supported on a frame, I), atrious ways in which the desired end can be tached to the bar B, in combination with such accomplished, the aim being to provide such bar B and means, substantially as described,

a construction as will resemble apillow, espefor holding the forms in any desired position, cially when the same is covered by a sham. as and for the purpose set forth. 9 Theunderfaces of thesepillow-formsmay be 2. The combination of a bedstead, the bar finished perfectly plain, or they may be hand- B, pillow-forms G, the frame I), attached to somely upholstered, so as to present an zessaid bar and supporting the forms Qwith the thetic appearance when in their elevated pobrackets a, the ratchet wheel E, and dog 6?, as sitions. set forth. 95

D represents a fly, the lower edge of which 3. In combination with a bedstead, the bar is properly hinged or otherwise secured to the B, brackets a, pillow-forms O, and shams F,

5 bar B, or to the pillow-forms, as desired, the the fly D, resting against a projection on the upper edge of such fly being designed to rest head of thebedstead, all constructed,arranged, against the head of the bed, to keep the piland operating substantially in the manner and I 0 low-sham from falling between the frames 1) for the purposes specified. and the head of the bed. This fly D may be 7 T madeof thin board hinged to the pillow-form, ID WILSOL' or it may be made of leather or other suitable \Vitnesses:

material tacked or otherwise secured to the E. SoULLY, same, and its free end rests upon a projecting E. W. ANDREWS. 

